Tesla Plans Lithium Hydroxide Plant Refinery at Texas Gigafactory, an Industrial Info Market Brief
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As site preparation work at Tesla's Cybertruck Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, moves along, the company is planning lithium battery cell production and a lithium hydroxide plant addition, further moving the company upstream in the lithium supply chain. Tesla is planning to build a spodumene ore concentrate conversion and lithium hydroxide refinery utilizing hydrometallurgical process technology as a precursor to lithium battery cell production.